C43 KING 43

Card game tables had been set up in the lounges. All the nobles of the court, man and woman, had fun there. Victoria greeted a few barrons and duchesses. Suddenly she spotted her prey.

Sidonie was a young woman of great beauty, her thin face may not equal that of Adélie, but it had something to make many women jealous. She had recently become the Marquise de Varney